DVD to iPod Touch

Best iPod Touch review:
http://www.aimersoft.com/news/best-ipod-touch-review.html

Capacity
8GB or 16GB flash drive1
Holds up to 1,750 or 3,500 songs in 128-Kbps AAC format
Holds up to 10,000 or 20,000 iPod-viewable photos
Holds up to 10 hours or 20 hours of video4

Audio
Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz
Audio formats supported: AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV

Video
H.264 video, up to 1.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Low-Complexity version of the H.264 Baseline Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
H.264 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Baseline Profile up to Level 3.0 with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats;
MPEG-4 video, up to 2.5 Mbps, 640 by 480 pixels, 30 frames per second, Simple Profile with AAC-LC audio up to 160 Kbps, 48kHz, stereo audio in .m4v, .mp4, and .mov file formats

Playback time
Music playback time: Up to 22 hours when fully charged
Video playback time: Up to 5 hours when fully charged

Step1. Download and install Aimersoft DVD to iPod Touch Converter; you can download it from here for free http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-to-ipod-converter.html

Step2. Load DVD files to DVD to iPod Touch Converter
Run Aimersoft DVD to iPod Touch Converter. Load your DVDs into the program: Please click "Load DVD" button or directly click the "File -> Load DVD folder" in the main interface, then select your DVD-ROM in the pop-up window and press the "OK" button. You also can click "Load File" button to import IFO file from your computer hard disk.

Step3. Select the chapters you want to convert
You can convert your whole DVD by highlighting the title which contains the whole episodes of DVD, such as the title 01, title 02... Or if you like, you can select certain chapters to convert: Press the little button before "Check All" on the interface to find all the chapters in the file.
This software fully supports all kinds of DVDs, such as regular DVD movie and MTV DVD. MTV DVD will have several titles, so you can select the desire MTV to convert.

Step4. Select the output iPod Touch Video format, Subtitle and Audio
Format: Click the "Format" combo-box on the interface, the result of setting will be shown on the list, select "iPod Touch MPEG-4 (*.mp4)", you will get output format iPod Touch MP4 Video. If you want to rip the audio from DVD to MP3 for iPod, you can select the "MP3 - MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)" format.
Subtitle: Regular DVD movie usually has several subtitles, like English, French, German, etc. You can select anyone according to your need. You also can select "No Subtitle"
Audio: Select Audio is the same as select Subtitle.

Tips: This software fully supports all series of iPod including iPod Touch, iPod Nano, iPod Classic, iPod Video and iPod Shuffle. It supports up to 640*480 resolutions, if you want to get better image quality, you can customize the resolution to 640*480, this will take longer time to convert DVD, but the image quality is perfect, also fit for watching on TV.
This software embeds two encoders XviD & H.264. H.264 takes longer time to convert DVD, but provides better quality and small file size.
After all things done, click "Start" to start conversion. When the conversion finished, open iTunes, click iTunes "File -> Add files to library" and import the converted video to your iTunes library, plug in your iPod to computer, click iTunes "File -> Sync iPod", and then the DVD movie will be transferred to your iPod Touch, that's really cool.

Step1. Please download Aimersoft iPod Touch Video Converter; you can download it from here for free.
http://www.aimersoft.com/ipod-video-converter.html

Step2. Install and run Aimersoft iPod Touch Video Converter, click the "Add" button to import your videos. Aimersoft iPod Touch Video Converter supports batch conversion, so you can import multiple files at a time. If you experience any problem adding videos by directly clicking the "Add" button, you can click "File -> Add DirectShow files%u2026" to add the video files you want to convert from your computer.

Step3. Then Click the "Format" drop-down list to select the format you prefer for each added file. If you don't know what formats to select, you can just select the format "iPod Touch MPEG-4 (*.mp4)", so you will get output iPod Touch MP4 Video. If you want to extract audio from video to MP3 file for iPod Nano, iPod Classic or other MP3 player, you can select "MP3 - MPEG Layer-3 Audio (*.mp3)".
If you want to customize the output quality, click the "Settings" button to open the Settings panel, where you can customize resolution, frame rate, video bit rate, audio bit rate, sample, etc. You also can create a settings profile and save it, and then you won't have to do the same settings every time. Since Aimersoft iPod Touch Video Converter supports batch conversion, you can use different profiles for each added video files to save your time. If you don't want to do these settings, the default settings will just work perfectly.

Step4. After all things done, click "Start" to start conversion.
This software embeds a free iPod Copy Manager; it can help you transfer the converted video to iPod Touch directly without iTunes. Just connect your iPod Touch to computer, click "Tools" -> "iPod Copy Manager", then you will see a pop up window, the left pane is the video and music list on your computer, the right pane is the file list on your iPod Touch (you also can copy files from iPod Touch to computer, it's useful if your computer crashes or you lose iTunes library), select the files you want to sync and click the right arrow button to finish the transfer. If you want to know more about iPod Copy Manager, you can visit here.
http://www.aimersoft.com/ipod-copy-manager.html

1. Aimersoft DVD to iPod Touch Converter provides rich video editing functions for you to trim, crop spilt convert and edit DVD movie. If you want to crop the DVD movie, just click the "Crop" button, and then you will see a pop up window. There is a frame in dashed line around the DVD movie; you can drag it to cut the black edges to fit for your iPod Touch (320*240). More over, you can click the Crop drop-down list to select a Crop model you prefer, for example: "Cut off top and bottom black edges". You can even type the number in the box to cut off black border accurately for your Apple iPod Touch. This function also works for the iPod Nano, iPod Classic and iPod Video.

2. You can click the "Effect" button and customize the DVD movie brightness, saturation, contrast, volume, etc for iPod Touch. You can even apply special effects to the DVD movie such as "Emboss", "Negative", "Old film" and "Gray" by selecting an effect from drop-down list.

3. Aimersoft DVD to iPod Touch Converter can capture pictures from DVD movie, there is a small camera icon below the preview windows, click it when you preview the movie, and then it will save the current scene, you can save the picture as JPEG and BMP format. iPod Touch can display JPEG photos, so you can save the picture as jpeg and sync it to iPod Touch via iTunes.

Now: free download Aimersoft DVD to iPod Touch from its official site;
http://www.aimersoft.com/dvd-to-ipod-converter.html

1. iTunes store: $0.99 for one song, $9.99 for one movie, $1.99 for one TV show. Just install iTunes and visit the iTunes store.

2. Limewire is fast and popular file sharing freeware working on Windows, Linux and Mac OS. Through the P2P (peer-to-peer) network, you can free download various files by its category or keyword searching.

3. Other stream video website such as video. Yahoo, MySpace, etc. here is a list of free stream video website
http://www.aimersoft.com/free-download-video-list.html
here is a guide to show you how to download stream video with vixy.net, keepvid.com and Firefox.
http://www.aimersoft.com/tutorial/free-download-youtube-video.html
the download stream video is flv file, if the free online flv converter couldn't deal with it, you can use try SUPER or Aimersoft Video Converter, and they can convert flv video to any format you want.

4. Rip your own CD to MP3 for iPod Touch; iTunes can help you to do that. Install and run iTunes, click "Edit -> Preference -> Advanced -> importing tab" to change the "Import Using" to MP3 Encoder, you can also customize the audio bit rate here. Then click OK and put your CD into your disc drive, iTunes will automatically recognize that you've loaded a CD. Now you can either choose individual songs for import by checking only the tracks you want and un-checking all the rest (all songs are selected for import by default). Simply click the Import button on the upper right corner of iTunes and let the software do the job. All of the selected files will be encoded into MP3 digital music files and saved in your iTunes music directory by Artist and Album. (If you're not sure where to locate your files, you can find out by going back to the "Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced tab"). Here you can see the default iTunes Music folder location,

Step1. Open this website: http://vixy.net/.It's a free online FLV converter.

Step2. Then go to YouTube http://www.youtube.com and find a video that you loved. Copy the URL that in the Red box. Like this format: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

Step3. Paste your video file URL to the input box (figure as follow), choose the right format you want. If you want to edit the video, AVI is a good choice. And MP4 is fit for iPod Touch and other MP4 players. This online converter also can rip youtube audio to MP3 for iPod Touch. Then wait for the conversion.
Step4. When the conversion finished, we got the download link of the output video. Click the download link to download the video and save in your computer, remember where you save it in. And then drag the converted video to iTunes library and sync to your iPod Touch. If you want to convert the download flv video to other format, you can use Aimersoft Video Converter, it can convert flv to AVI/MPEG/MPG/WMV/MP4/MOV/3GP, etc.

For detailed steps, you can refer to this guide
http://www.aimersoft.com/tutorial/free-download-youtube-video.html

If you have Firefox browser, you can follow these steps.
Step1. Install the videodownloader extension. This is a free plug-in for Firefox. It enables you capture streaming video from website. Here is the free download link:
https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2390

Step2. After installing videodownloader, restart Firefox. In the bottom right, you'll see a little box. Go to the video you want to download, double click that little box, and select download link. Then you could download the streaming video you want. You have to rename the file extension from "html" to "flv" when you save the link. (Make sure your compute is show file extension)

The downloaded video will be FLV format, if you want to convert the FLV video to AVI, MPEG, MP4, WMV, MOV, DAT, DivX, XviD, MPG, 3GP, ASF, RM, RMVB, OGG, VOB, M4V, M4A, MP3, AC3, AAC, WMA, WAV, etc. You can use this free downlaod Video Converter, it can convert flv video to MP4 for iPod Touch, iPod Nano and iPod Classic with super fast speed.

iPod cannot display PDF file directly, you have to convert your PDF file or electronic book to *.txt format, and make sure the txt file size is smaller than 4KB, and then copy the *txt file to the "Note" folder in iPod. Here are the detailed steps:

step1. Enable your iPod as a portable hard drive, plug in your iPod to computer and run iTunes, in the summary tab, check the option named "enable iPod disk mode".

step2. Download and install iGadget, it will convert and cut your files to 4kb .txt file. Here is the download link http://www.freedvdripper.net/software/igadget.html

step3. Connect your iPod to computer and open "My Computer", open iPod drive (it will display your iPod name), and then copy the txt file to the "Note" folder, done. Then you can watch the text file on iPod note.

If you want to find an iTunes alternative to manager your iPod files, you can use Aimersoft iPod Copy Mnagaer, it's totally free.
http://www.aimersoft.com/ipod-copy-manager.html

You can use iTunes to download free podcast and sync it to iPod Touch as syncing music. I prefer use MyPodder to download and transfer podcast to iPod Touch, MyPodder is a freeware, cross platform software for downloading podcasts directly to your MP3 player. You can download MyPodder from here for free
http://www.podcastready.com/download.php
In order to use MyPodder, you'll need an account with the Podcast Ready web site. Then just follow along with the instructions for installing MyPodder to your iPod. After it's all set up, you can run MyPodder off your iPod on any computer to update your iPod's podcasts.

If you want to find free download music and video resource, you can bookmark this free video download list
http://www.aimersoft.com/free-download-video-list.html

Because iTunes cannot convert muxed video (muxed video means the audio and video are on the same track), muxed video converted by iTunes will lose sound. You can learn more about the problem from apple official document
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302588
When you have this problem, you can try Aimersoft iPod Touch Video Converter, it embeds XviD and H.264 code that can deal with muxed video. Here is the official download link
http://www.aimersoft.com/ipod-video-converter.html

Actually, you can manage more than one iPod on the same computer.
Method1. Create multi accounts on one computer, one account for each person to login OS and sync his/her iPod with iTunes.
Method2. Set your iPod to "Manually manage music and video", and then create a new iTunes playlist for each iPod that contains all the music that you want to send to that particular iPod.

As for transferring music between different iPods, you need a special application to do that, I have tried a program named iPod2iPod, it can successfully transfer my friend's iPod music to my iPod, and here is a guide about it:
http://www.top5soft.com/tutorial/how-to-transfer-music-between-iPods.html

Because iTunes prevents you from copying music or video from iPod back to computer, so you need a special tool to do that. Here are the free applications that can do the job:
For Windows system:
Aimersoft: http://www.aimersoft.com/ipod-copy-manager.html
iPod transfer: http://www.youtubetoipod.biz/iphone-ipod-to-computer-transfer.html
Yamipod: http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/downloads/
Sharepod: http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?Section=iPod+Programs&Page=SharePod
iDump: http://www.download.com/iDump/3000-2169_4-10407429.html

For Mac OS X:
Yamipod: http://www.yamipod.com/main/modules/downloads/
Floola: http://www.floola.com/modules/wiwimod/
EphPod: http://www.ephpod.com/download.shtml
After you install the iPod manager program, you should connect your iPod to computer, run the program, and when you will see the file list of your iPod, you can just click the Transfer button to transfer the selected file from your iPod to your computer.

This part is mainly for the old version iPod, coz the new series of iPods can directly play video and game and you don't need to hack them. If you want to hack your iPod to play Doom 3, you have to install iPod Linux on your iPod, here is iPod Linux official installation guide
http://ipodlinux.org/Installation_from_Windows
Or you can take a look at this guide, which I think is more intuitional:
http://www.youtubetoipod.biz/guide/ipod-linux-on-ipod-nano-play-music-video.html
Note: It' can be pretty complicated to install iPod Linux on iPod, so give it a serious consideration before you do that.

Because iTunes cannot convert muxed video (the audio and video of a muxed video file are on the same track), muxed video converted by iTunes will lose sound. You can learn more about this issue from apple's official document
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=302588
If you come across this problem, you can refer to Part 3 "How to convert video to iPod", the iPod converter that I recommend can deal with muxed video with no problem.

In order to get your iPod Touch connected properly to your TV,
1. And then set up your iPod Touch video options. To open iPod settings, choose Videos -> Video Settings from your main iPod menu. This screen offers three settings: TV Out, TV Signal and Widescreen. Adjust to produce the video playback style you need. See this figures:
iPod Touch setting:


2. You need an A/V cable. If you don't already have an eighth-inch-to-RCA cable, you can pick one up on eBay for five or six bucks shipped. Search for "camcorder A/V cable." Remember, you want a three-plug yellow/red/white RCA connection at one end and a three-banded eighth-inch (3.5mm) A/V plug at the other.

A/V cable

A/V cable connection


detailed steps from here.

you can delete a video from your iPod touch without the need to connect it to the computer and do it through iTunes. From the start page tap the Videos icon, on the next screen decide which one you want to delete, swipe to the left or to the right over the video and tap on Delete icon. Done! However, this is not going to delete the video in iTunes once you sync your iPod, so if you want to really remove it, delete it in iTunes as well.

you can use a handy shortcut to do this, simply double-tap the home button and the volume control, back, next, and pause/play controls will come to your screen. No need to unlock, it just works.

from the main screen tap Music and on the bottom of the next screen you will see five icons: Playlists, Artists, Songs, Albums and More. If you don't like this set you can change it. I don't use playlists but I do listen to lots of podcasts, so I wanted to have a Podcasts icon here. This is how you can do it:

Once you have the five icons on the bottom of your screen, tap on Edit on top-left and you will see another nine icons, on your screen. Pick one (e.g. Podcasts) and drag it onto the one you don't want (e.g. Playlists) - they'll swap places. If you want to reorder the five bottom icons, just drag them around, they'll behave exactly as icons on the OS X Dock. Once you have your new set ready tap Done and that's it.

If you want to download free games to iPod Touch, you can visit here
http://www.aimersoft.com/iphonegames/freeiphonegames.html

If you want to download free wallpaper for iPhone, you can visit here
http://www.daniusoft.com/tutorial/best-iphone-wallpaper.html

As we know, Jobs announced the world's thinest laptop MacBook Air, if you want to use iPod Touch on Laptop, it's easy, you just need to convert your video and DVD to mp4 video, then drag the mp4 video to the iTunes library, plug in your iPod touch to computer, click the Movie tab, select the video you want to sync, then click "Apply", done.
You can visit here to learn more about MacBook Air
http://www.aimersoft.com/news/first-macbook-air-review.html